How to Mine Asteroids?/Effects of Storms?

[Jubala]

The first thing I will do when I get the full Version is to kill (cut in half or so) the build cost of remote mining components so it actuall makes sense to remote mine. It will make the ships cheap to build but they will also be costeffective to operate so I can live with that.

[Taqwus]

On storms...

Can you create a storm right on top of an enemy planet, or a warp point?

(Might be tempting, if mildly eccentric -- a cloaked CA skulking about, manipulating space weather...)

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Praetor Onetcao]

Jubala, don't kill the mining. Use Large satellietes. Its EXTREMELY cost effective. Build a few hundred sattelites, fill up your reserves, and load them back up onto the carrier. Haven't tried fighters yet, though.

[LintMan]

The problem with sats is that you can only use large sats, and to tech up to them costs quite a large amount of research points (I'm guessing at least 500K), and then you have to spend the resources and time to build the sats and the sat layer. So they aren't useful for mining until quite a bit into a low-tech game.

[James Sterrett]

Sats are 50,000 per level; you get the first level for free. Researching the next two will take a total of 250,000 RPs.

[LintMan]

Hmmm. I had thought I needed to research construction tech before getting satellites, but I just checked and I was mistaken - you do start with Sat 1. But it doesn't cost 50K per level for me. Level 2 is 100K, but Level 3 costs 225K for me, not 150K.

Is it really 150K for Sat level 3 for you? I'm seeing the 225K the (default) medium tech cost setting.

[Comar]

Research cost will vary with how much you set it to be at the start of the game.